The Ricoh Camera History started in 1927, when the company Rikagaku Kogyou Kabushigaisha was founded.
In 1936, it became Riken Kankoshi Co., Ltd.
The company was founded by Kiyoshi Ichimura who came from a poor farming family.
The company initially started out as a maker of sensitized photopapers before moving into cameras.
In 1934 they produced a plastic camera, the Olympic.
In 1938, they released the Riken Adler camera series.
In 1950, the RicohFlex III was introduced and became the worlds first mass-produced twin-lens reflex camera.
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